Dear Abby: I am the single mother of identical twin boys. They insist on dressing alike and use their own secret language. I have always had trouble telling them apart. When they were young, it was cute, but as they are growing older, I'm starting to worry.

As the economic crisis gathered steam last year, Americans became increasingly stressed out and experienced worsened mental health a trend that continues today, according to a landmark Gallup-Healthways poll out this week.

The next installment Harry Potter film will face a unique situation: It arrives more than a year after the completion of the literary saga. (The seventh and final book, Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows, was published last summer.) The big-screen versions, the filmmakers realize, now have to be separate entities.

Environmentalists took steps on Wednesday to sue the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to compel states to clean up the haze plaguing the nation's parks, wildlife refuges and wilderness areas.

Increasingly across the West, homes and development are moving into rugged areas that have been the turf of mountain lions. Revered by naturalists, cougars have rebounded in the USA and are once again competing for territory with their only predator: man.